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Managing Security Risks
Expatriates and business travelers face significant risks around the world this year due to increased social activism, potential natural disasters, and continued risks from crime and terrorism. HR leaders need to ensure that all stakeholders are involved in creating — and communicating — detail-r …
Predicting Team Performance
Better interpersonal relationships lead to more effective teams, according to recent research. That’s especially true in larger teams, in which all members may not know each other — or be comfortable going to the team leader when issues arise.
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Analytics! (Did I Just Scare You?)
Workforce analytics can seem scary and complicated, which must be two of the many reasons they have not been successfully used inside HR departments for decades. After many previous attempts by software vendors large and small, consultant Mercer may have come up with a winning combination of technol …
Talent “In the Cloud”
This article accompanies The Human Risk Factor.
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Alert bosses: Email can and will be used against you in court
You’ve told managers before, now tell ’em again: Email may seem like private communication, but it really isn’t. Anything a manager says in an email may become evidence in a lawsuit.
Employee ideas help create a safer plant
Higher-ups at The Timken’s Co.’s Manchester, Conn., plant are leaving it to employees to find out what ails the power-transmission products firm—and to fix it. The organization recently took home top honors in a “Find It-Fix It Challenge” sponsored by the workplace-i …
Manage health, retirement spending with employee education
As benefits continue to become a bigger portion of labor costs, employers are responding by offering more health education and financial advice to employees. According to a new report by WorldatWork, 45% of surveyed organizations report that senior executives consider turning em …
Team up for termination meetings; going solo could trigger lawsuit
When terminating an employee, never meet one-on-one. Instead, make sure at least two company representatives are present at all times. The reason? If you meet alone, you give the employee an opportunity to put words in your mouth—words that may end up as evidence against you in court.
Are reference checks a waste of time?
Q. We are re-examining our applicant screening process. One idea we’re considering is eliminating calling previous employers for reference checks. We haven’t found those calls to be very helpful, because most former employers will only confirm dates of employment and job title. Is th …
Lean HR
A discussion of using Lean tools and technology to drive change and streamline processes throughout the HR value stream. Mostly, anyway.
How Fun Was The SOPA Blackout?
The answer: Great fun indeed. Oh sure, I couldn’t read Dinorsaur Comics for a while. Or XKCD. Or Cyanide and Happiness (that one’s a little NSFW, justsoyaknow). But other than my webcomic needs, my favorite Firefox add-in (Morning Coffee, in case you didn’t know) functioned …
Should HR Care About SOPA?
The Stop Online Piracy Act (or SOPA, as it has come to be known) is about to cause you some problems, whether you or for or against it. Even if you don’t know what it is. In short, SOPA is all about holding people accountable for the content of their site. There’s more to [...]
Social Media Recruiting Basics
I’m certainly no expert on the subject, granted. In fact, I’m excited to attend the Social Recruiting MacGyver Style! webinar hosted by our friends at Fistful of Talent. So I would consider myself a novice. Maybe a little more than that, but not much. So I think it makes me perfe …
How to Terminate an Employee
I’m not the first to write about this topic, for sure. But I saw an article on Yahoo! titled “How to Break Up With a Woman” and I thought, “Yup. That’s about right.” (BTW, why is it no one ever worries about how to break up with a guy? It’s always th …
Are You Scared?
You may remember that I’m a fan of Peter Krause from his SportsNight days. So I’ve been watching his new show, Parenthood. (It’s not great, but better than most of what fills up prime time lineups these days.) So, short version, there was a nice scene in a recent episode wher …
